S.Amdt. 3361

SA 3361. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 82, to amend title

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II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset
and windfall elimination provisions; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON POLITICAL ELECTION OR CONTEST
AGREEMENTS, CONTRACTS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SWAPS.

Section 5c(c)(5) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C.
7a-2(c)(5)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(D) Prohibition relating to political elections or
contests.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this
section, no agreement, contract, transaction, or swap
involving any political election or any other political
contest (or any index, measure, value, or data related
thereto, or occurrence, extent of an occurrence, or
contingency based thereon) may be listed or made available
for clearing or trading on or through a registered entity.''.
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